Free educational conference sponsored by Kean University


Program, Friday, October 10, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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Keynote address:  Dr. Taras Hunczak

Professor Taras Hunczak PhD, professor emeritus of History and Political Science at Rutgers University, is a world-renowned scholar whose primary fields of interest include Ukraine, Russia, Poland and national minorities of Ukraine. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna in 1960 and has authored and edited thirty books on the subject of Ukrainian, Russian and Jewish-Ukrainian relations.  He has conducted research on the Holodomor using various sources that include the recently unclassified archives of the former Soviet Union.  His other activities included serving in November 1993 as consultant to the CSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and Preventive Diplomacy in Hague, The Netherlands.  Dr. Hunczak also received numerous awards in the United States and in Ukraine for his academic accomplishments as well as for his contributions to building civic society in Ukraine. 

Debut of a new play on the Holodomor by Susan Halmi, Kean University graduate

Eyewitness accounts

Original poetry and art by Kean University students

Lesson plans for high school and middle school students

          

Schedule:

     8:15 -  8:50 a.m. --    Registration and Coffee, University Center Pre-Function Room

    9:00 - 10:30 a.m. --   Little Theater, University Center
                                        Welcome:  10-minute film on the Holodomor
                                        Keynote Address:  Dr. Taras Hunczak
                                        Debut of "It Began with a Dream," a Holodomor play by Susan Halmi
                                        Survivors' accounts

  10:30 - 11:00 a.m. -- CAS 118 - 120
                                      Lesson plan display
                                      Holodomor art display
                                      Ukrainian cultural display
                                      Coffee and babka

  11:00 - 11:55 a.m. -- Break-out session one, CAS 450
                                      Discussion with survivors and their children
                                      Video interviews by filmmaker Damian Kolodiy

  12:00 - 1:00 p.m. --   Break-out session two, CAS 451
                                      Issues in Teaching about the Holodomor:
                                      Dr. Bernard Weinstein, moderator
                                      Victor Rud, Esq., panelist
                                      Dan Silva, panelist

                                      Break-out session three, CAS 452
                                      "Effect of the Holodomor on Children," Joanna Sliwa, presenter
                                      "Films on the Holodomor for Classroom Use"
                                      

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teachers.

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